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The Aesthetics of Democratic Power: Sensibility, Normativity, and the Sublime
Constellations, EarlyView.
Stephen K. White
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Density is critical to cities, but how might we conceive and research its role in urban development? We argue that a conceptualization of the ‘density dialectic’ offers a productive response. Drawing on research on urban development in Tower Hamlets (London's densest borough), we identify the tensions and contradictions of current ...
Victoria Habermehl, Colin McFarlane
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The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article re‐examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of ‘humanity’. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the ‘stranger’ and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the ‘outsider within’, the study rethinks
Daniel Davison‐Vecchione +1 more
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Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC), Settlement Generation Competition
, 2018 This paper introduces the settlement generation competition for Minecraft, the first part of the Generative Design in Minecraft challenge. The settlement generation competition is about creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents that can produce ...
Aluru Krishna +10 more
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New Media Maps as ‘Contact Zones’: Subjective Cartography and the Latent Aesthetics of the City-Text
, 2011 Suneel Jethani
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Reimagining urban design of stormwater infrastructure in settler‐colonial Sydney
Geographical Research, EarlyView.This article draws on archival material and field site visits to question the importance that settler‐colonial urban design has had in shaping contemporary ways of thinking about watery spaces. Considering the Tank Stream, I examine the embedded hydro‐imperial characteristics that these infrastructures still hold.
Taylor Coyne
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Journal of Interior Design, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 49-67, December 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT To maximize the number of new dwelling units for people experiencing long‐term homelessness, permanent supportive housing (PSH) developers have minimized the floor area of such units, creating very small studio apartments in purpose‐built, single‐site housing projects.
Christina Bollo
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Tall buildings have productivity benefits for workers and prestige for firms. No wonder firms are willing to pay a premium to work in them. [PDF]
, 2011 In spite of the global recession, London and many other large cities are experiencing a major period of skyscraper construction. Discussing a new report, Max Nathan finds that tall buildings may make workers more productive and give firms a ‘prestige ...
Nathan, Max
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3D View Optimization for Improving Image Aesthetics [PDF]
arXivAchieving aesthetically pleasing photography necessitates attention to multiple factors, including composition and capture conditions, which pose challenges to novices. Prior research has explored the enhancement of photo aesthetics post-capture through 2D manipulation techniques; however, these approaches offer limited search space for aesthetics.
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